News
LCG, September 30, 2025--Vistra Corp. announced yesterday that it will proceed with the next phase of its capital plan to support grid reliability in Texas. In 2024, Vistra identified over $1 billion worth of potential capital additions in generation capacity within the Texas ERCOT market by 2028 if market conditions were supportive. Now, with West Texas' growing power requirements, particularly the state's expanding oil and natural gas industries, Vistra reached a final investment decision and confirms it will build two new advanced natural gas-fired power units on-site at its Permian Basin Power Plant.
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LCG, September 24, 2025--Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc. (ERCOT) yesterday announced its new initiative to increase its efforts to fully use and apply innovation and transformation through industry collaboration to best overcome the challenges and opportunities facing future grid operations. The new Grid Research, Innovation, and Transformation (GRIT) initiative will advance research and prototyping of emerging concepts and solutions to better understand the implications of rapid grid and technology evolution and position ERCOT to lead in the future energy landscape.
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Industry News
Teco Joins Panda in Two Huge Merchant Plants
LCG, Nov. 15, 2000--Teco Power Services and Panda Energy International today announced that they have formed a joint venture to build, own and operate two natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle merchant power plants, each of more than 2,200 megawatts capacity.The new facilities will represent an investment of $2.3 billion, the companies said. A 2,220 megawatt plant planned for El Dorado, Ark., is in an early construction phase. A 2,350 megawatt project at Gila Bend, Ariz., is in an advanced stage of development, with siting, permitting and other agreements in place.Panda was responsible for initial planning and development of the two projects. Bob Carter, chairman and chief executive of the independent power producer, said "These are highly attractive projects in excellent markets, and we're excited about this joint venture."Robert Fagan, chairman and chief executive of Tampa-based Teco Energy Inc., parent company of Teco Power Services, said "We are well on our way to transforming our company into one that is predominantly unregulated in a financially disciplined manner."The El Dorado project is being built to interconnect with an Entergy-Arkansas substation adjacent to the site. The first phase is expected to begin producing power by the summer of 2002 with full commercial operation a year later.The Gila Bend project will interconnect with Arizona Public Service Co.'s Palo Verde switchyard and begin commercial operation in the late summer of 2002.
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